Unforeseen consequences of therapy with continuous-flow pumps

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 647-649

  Frazier, O H ^a  

^a MC 2 114A ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic valve regurgitation; Heart failure; Left ventricular assist device; Von Willebrand syndrome

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EPISTAXIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOSIS; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE;

AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VON WILLEBRAND DISEASES;

EID: 78650086786     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.110.959023     Document Type: Editorial

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